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The comment that would best describe the Science on the Rocks event, hosted at the Discovery Place in Uptown Charlotte, was made by a mom from Huntersville. She said something along the lines of “I am used to bringing my kids here, but coming without them is so much fun… I’ve already had two beers and all I can say is they should do it more often”. The Discovery Place is known as this cool science oriented museum especially designed for kids, an interactive place where you can learn more about biology, physics and astronomy. Science on the Rocks was an adult event accepting only people over 21, with bars spread around the museum. It was sort of an educative and interactive happy hour, with friends getting together to learn while playing.

On the first floor, there was a fish and sea animals exhibition, with water tanks for you to touch some of them. Ants and bugs were also exposed on a different room. One of my favorite parts was the section with musical instruments, and other cool toys. My husband preferred the catapult beer pong they installed by the cafe and bar, though.

The main floor was even cooler. A mini lifting machine with four different seats were build to made people feel the different amount of force they needed to use to lift themselves to the top, teaching about the physical concepts of force, energy and weight. Near it, there were tables were you could design your own stop motion short film with different toys. Not to mention the Frog exhibition and the Alien Worlds and Androids, the last one displaying life sizes replicas of Star Wars’s C3PO and Iron Man. In the same section, there was a room displaying footage of how NASA uses tones to analyze planets, their chemical components and the possibility of having aliens living there.

The main complain was the 45 minutes line to get to the bars. There was 4, 2 in each floor of the museum, but they weren’t enough to handle the amount of people attending the event. Overall, a very fun entertaining and educative night. They definitely need to do it more often.